Paper-filing device



Dec. 13, 1927. 1,652,205

F. J. KLlNE PAPER FILING DEVICE Filed June 28. 1924 'INVENTIOR.

BY flaw A9.

ATTORN Patented Dec. 13, 1927.

FRED J. KLINE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PAPER-FILING- DEVICE.

Application filed June 28, 1924. Serial No. 722,892.

This invention relatesv to paper filing devices and particularly todevices for filing letters, vouchers, documents and the like.

The main object of the invention is to provide a paper filing devicethat is especially adapted for filing small numbers of letters,vouchers, documents and the like. Another object is to provide a deviceof this type which is simple in operation and low in cost ofmanufacture.

The means I prefer to employ for effecting the above-named objects, areillustrated in the accompanylng drawing which forms part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of one formof my improved paper filing device.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a paper fastener for use in myinvention.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in all the figures ofthe drawing.

Referring to Fig. 1 of the drawing, the numeral 1 denotes the backingmember of a paper file. Ordinarily the said backing member forms one ofa pair of folding covers 1 and 2, and which covers are preferablyconnected together in any suitable way, as in this instance directly,along the folding line 3. On the backing member or cover 1,is a memberwhich I term the flap and is denoted by the numeral 4. The flap has afree or movableportion 4: and a portion 4) attached preferably bypastinto the backing member or cover 1 near its 1e hand part or adj aoent tothe folding line 3. I provide slits 5 in the free portion 4 of the flap4, and each of said slits in this form of the device consists of twoparts, first a part 5 starting at the outer edge of the free portion 4oblique thereto and joined to a second part 5 parallel to the ends ofthe flap.

Preferably I place a paper fastener such as 7 of Fig. 2, in the saidslits 5, and said fasteners ordinarily consist of a main portion 8 andtwo spaced apart tongues 9 which can be bent up at right angles to theportion 8. To place the paper fastener 7 on the flap 4, the portions 10of the flap, adjacent to the slits 5 are bent upwardly and the fasteners7 with their tongues 9 at right angles to their main portions are pushedlaterally into the parts 5* of the slits 5, and on releasing theportions 10, the said fasteners are held on the flap 4 by frictionalcontact with the slits 5. Papers to be filed are perforated 5 and pushedonto the tongues 9 and these are then bent neatly down on the papers.

The foregoing paper filing device is intended for use especially whereonly a small number of papers such as one to half a dozen 6 or so, isdesired to be filed, and the abovedescribed device is particularlyadvantageous as its construction is simple and inexpensive.

What I claim is I 1. The combination with the backing memher of a paperfile, of a flap secured to said backing member near one boundary thereofand having a movable portion and a pair of spaced apart slits thereinadapted to hold a two tongued paper fastener by its tongues, each slithaving a portion substantially at right angles to said boundary of thebacking member and a portion oblique thereto which last-mentionedportions are slanted away from each other toward the edge of the movableportion, and a paper fastening device having spaced apart tonguesregistering with the first-mentioned portions of said slits and wherebyit can be secured to said flap by passing said tongues laterally intothe slits on bending the portions nextvto the oblique parts of saidsllts and be held by the frictional contact of the edges of the slits onthe fastener tongues.

2. The combination of a backing member for a sheet-material file, and aflap secured by substantially one edge to said, backing member, the freeportion of said flap being rovided with a plurality of perforationsconnected by slots with one of the free edges, said slots being obliqueto the edge so as to retain the prongs of a fastening element insertedin said perforations.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York,this 23d day of June, 1924. I

FRED J. KLINE.

